Sumaya Moustafa, or Maya, is a mixed-media artist. Primarily working with collage, paint, clay (and the contents of her recycling bin). She enjoys all things kitsch and quaint! Drawing inspiration from her formative years, returning to not only the stories from her youth but from her childhood artistic approach of playing, intentionally centering the process.

Sumaya particularly enjoys creating miniatures as well as paper collage which she, to, incorporates in almost all of her illustrations and animations, crafting different pockets of worlds - all prioritising an environmental, sustainable and analogue approach with little-to-no digital aid. She loves old bottle caps and cutting the letters out of everything -  intentionally (well, usually) the outcome often askew. Childlike her style often may be, she enjoys existential themes. Interested in the intersection between physical materials and motion Sumaya has only more recently delved into DIY animation, a medium that feels like the marriage of all of the others she so loves. Sumaya is fascinated with how all mediums not only interact, but aid one other.

After going freelance in 2025 and participating in fundraising markets with Glasgow Artists for Palestine, Sumaya established @fluttbug , her shop (and vessel to show off a bit.) the thought  behind it really came when selling her work in person, and seeing people interact with it; a feeling reminiscent to showing your mum a drawing you done when you were wee and she was really proud! The brand (and name being a play on her first online username) is all around the process being a playful one, and coming back to herself, and her first love: art! The unique pieces sold are all hand done by Sumaya.

Sumaya Moustafa is currently Glasgow City Centre based and working in Film and TV as an Assistant Editor, she also works as an illustrator for Disobedient Magazine and facilitates sustainable art workshops with ICAN and Cass Art. Sumaya finds writing about herself in the third person weird and grandiose.